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Aug. 10, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 10, 2012, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Yeah, I found a couple, and I know there's much more than this, but I've just had time to find a couple.
Oh, Joe, it's Friday, folks.
Let's hit it.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's Open Line Friday.
Yes, sir, Rebob.
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Now, Open Line Friday, as a general rule on paper, theoretically, it's supposed to be different.
Sometimes it doesn't end up being different, but the opportunity for it to be different is there.
You see, if you're new to the program, and many millions of you are, Monday through Thursday, this program is tightly screened unless, of course, Snerdley decides to phone it in.
You have to talk about things I care about.
You have to talk about things I'm interested in.
And you have to be able to talk.
Otherwise, you don't have a prayer.
I'm a benevolent dictator.
There really is no First Amendment here.
My benevolence handles all that.
But on Friday, all that gets thrown at you, and whatever you want to talk about is fine.
You can call and rip me to shreds.
You can ask questions, make comments, whatever.
You think things aren't being discussed and need to be discussed?
This is the day to do it.
And it's often a lot of fun.
And it's an opportunity for me to phone it in.
And if I wanted to, see, like right now, Snerdley won't even start screening calls for 25 minutes.
What he will do is, as the lines fill up, which is instantly, he'll just answer and hang up and answer and hang up and answer and hang up and answer and hang up until there's enough of the program that's taken place that people might be calling in response to what I'm saying.
So he won't even start screening for 20 minutes.
What if I said I want to start right now with phone calls?
I don't have one.
There isn't one.
I mean, I could just answer the phone.
We've done that before.
We've done it before.
Oh, now you're really making me want to do it.
He says, you don't want to do that these days.
You don't want to do that.
So we can do it anyway.
Whatever you wish to talk about.
Since the opportunity is there for everybody to phone it in, I can say, you know what?
I'm really tired and I'm really depressed and I'm sick and tired of presiding over.
I'm sick and tired of talking about, giving evidence of the decline of America.
So I'm just going to let you people carry it.
I'm just, okay, you're up.
You're on the air.
What do you want to talk about?
And let the callers carry it.
That's what most hosts, the Steelers lost last night.
Is that right?
B F D. Are you telling me the Pittsburgh Steelers lost the Philadelphia Iggles?
BFD.
No, I must admit, you know what?
I remembered, I don't know why I was, I was, I went to bed at 10 o'clock.
I was exhausted.
I told Catherine I'm going to bed.
She said, are you sick?
She says, don't die.
I said, whoa, no, what are you talking about?
You never, I don't go to bed before 1.30 or 2.
I said, no, I'm just, I'm just wiped.
I'm just exhausted.
I don't know that I've got any more energy.
Save the country than what I've been putting into it.
So, but 9 o'clock, this may be one of the reasons.
9 o'clock, I remembered that there were football games on.
So I turned on, I tried to find, okay, what networks carrying which games.
I finally found ESPN had the Chargers and the Packers.
But this game, if you missed the first series or two, you missed the starters.
You're watching people aren't going to even make the teams.
Big whoop.
But now the Chargers-Packers game was the first female riff.
But I didn't hang around long enough to see if that mattered.
Oh, you know Linda Chavez, right?
Linda Chavez, in a syndicated column of the New York Post, she really upset that female boxing is an event at the Olympics.
She doesn't understand it.
And it's right along the lines of these people banning football.
It's too dangerous.
It's bad enough that men do this.
But men can be excused.
They've got testosterone.
They're naturally aggressive.
But to turn women into boxers and have them, there's only one reason to get into boxing a match, and that's to hurt somebody.
At least in football, you're trying to score touchdowns.
But in boxing, you're trying to hurt somebody and not get her.
It's brutal.
It's not something we need our women doing.
She launches into female combat.
We don't need women in combat.
And she recounts experiences.
She fell.
She hit the back of her head on the floor.
Didn't think anything was wrong and is now having some shrinkage in one of the lobes.
And she takes that experience and look at, I don't know what's happening to me.
It's not good.
And I just had an accident.
Now we put these women out there in the Olympics, and she doesn't like it.
And I'll share it with you as the program.
There are other reasons to post-boxing for women.
Many feminazis.
She didn't write feminazis.
I see the word feminist as a feminazi.
Many feminists see the decision to include women's boxing in the Olympics as a step forward in recognizing equality.
These same feminazis want to see women in military combat.
Their ultimate goal is ignoring any differences between men and women, even when those differences are biologically rooted.
She says, no societies ever existed in which women were the warriors.
Males are larger, they are more powerful, and driven by—that maybe used to be, but that's not true anymore.
I mean, physically it's true, but men are cowed.
Men are totally whipped now.
Who are the warriors in our culture?
Who's running the schools?
Who's doing all this?
Who's dictating welfare reform?
Blowing it up.
Anyway, that's a side issue.
Let me continue with what she says here.
Males are larger, more powerful, driven by testosterone to be more aggressive than females.
Women are life-givers, not life-takers.
See, we go from boxing to football to military to taking life.
Yes, there are exceptions.
Women do commit murder, though they are far less likely to engage in random or stranger killing than men, meaning women only kill the men they know.
And of course, they have a reason.
The murder rate is 10%.
The female murder rate, committed murder rate, is 10% that of males.
I'm sure there's some women who could do well on the battlefield, and no doubt this she's writing this about our gold medal winner, Clarissa Shields.
She says, I'm sure that no doubt Clarissa Shields could defeat many bigger men in the ring, but is more violence and aggressiveness something we really want to encourage in our species?
Is there no evolutionary advantage in having half the population play a gentler, more nurturing role that tempers the aggressive tendencies of the other half of our species?
Whatever glory Clarissa Shields and other boxers earn in the ring will be paid for by future generations of women and men who are hurt by following their example.
Instead of welcoming women into the boxing competition, the Olympic Committee would serve society better by eliminating the sport altogether.
So you see, ladies and gentlemen, it's now universal.
Now universal.
So anyway, where was I?
Oh, I was talking about how I could phone it in on Open Line Friday and just let the callers take over as I'm tired of chronicling the demise and the decline of our country each and every day.
Linda Chavez wants to take us back to the evil 1950s, just like Romney.
We've got more, yeah, the regime really upset about this welfare ad that Romney, and then Romney doubled down on it.
They've now reacted to it.
Bob Rector, who I've often cited here as an expert on poverty, the poor, welfare, welfare reform, the Heritage Foundation, he went on the news hour with used to be Jim O'Lara, was hosted last night by Judy Woodruff.
He went on there.
He said, look, I wrote welfare reform.
I'm the guy who wrote what Clinton ended up signing, and Obama is gutting it.
And Judy Woodruff didn't want to hear that.
Now, Obama's, by the way, have you heard Obama?
I want to nationalize other industries, just like I did General Motors and Chrysler.
He, yeah, he came out, no longer, he just didn't admit it.
He came out and advocated it.
He suggested it, and he talked about how he could do it and save other industries like he has saved the automobile industry.
I kid you not.
I had it here near the top of the stack.
Let's go to the audio soundbites.
I'll take you back.
This is me, April 28, 2009.
This is shortly after the stimulus bill.
And this is after Obama has taken over General Motors and Chrysler.
He gave those companies, remember the bondholders, the Chrysler and GM bondholders, which rank higher than stockholders in terms of who gets paid in a bankruptcy or who gets their investment paid back first.
The bondholders are first.
Obama told them to take a hike.
Obama called them greedy for wanting a return on their investment.
Not even a return.
They just wanted their money back.
And Obama said, get the hell out.
You're greedy.
Who the hell are you guys?
And he gave the companies to the autoworkers, essentially.
And so back on April 28th of 2009, I, El Rushbo, said this.
This was the game plan all along.
And it's not Obama's answer to every problem.
It's his objective.
Nationalize every business.
It's not his solution.
It's his objective.
That was key.
It's a key difference.
It's not a solution to a problem.
It's his objective.
This is what he intends.
That's April 28th, 2009.
This is when everybody's still roiling in controversy over the fact that I had said three months prior that I hoped Obama failed because I knew what was coming.
So here's Obama yesterday in Pueblo, Colorado, during his campaign event.
I believe in American workers.
I believe in this American industry.
The American auto industry has come roaring back and GM's number one again.
So now I want to do the same thing with manufacturing jobs, not just in the auto industry, but in every industry.
Every industry.
I want to do what I did for jobs at General Motors.
It's not number one.
They're not making money.
It's just another in a long line of blatant lies.
But here he's being honest.
It's another, I think this has the potential, not quite, but it has the potential to be, you didn't build that.
You didn't make that happen.
And by the way, where has that gone?
You noticed that all this Romney stuff that Romney didn't pay his taxes and this Romney killed my wife.
Have you noticed that that whole incident from July 13th at Roanoke just vanished when Obama said, you didn't build that?
You didn't make that happen.
And Rhodes and Bridges made that happen.
He was getting creamed on that.
It was really hurting.
And that's gone.
That's gone.
It's vanished out there into the ether.
Nobody's talking about it.
Except for I, El Rushbo, now bringing it back up and reminding people.
No, instead, what we've been talking about is Romney killed a guy's wife, Romney being unfair to Obama and his welfare ad.
And now here's Obama.
I want to do the same thing with manufacturing jobs and not just the auto industry, every industry.
I want to be Hugo Chavez.
Does this include the oil industry, for example?
Does this include the natural gas industry?
Does Obama want to take over Apple?
You know, folks, if you hate Apple or if you hate me talking about Apple, then you better support Obama taking it over because he'll kill it and it'll be the end of it.
Brief timeout.
Open line Friday.
El Rushbow continues after this.
Folks, he's serious.
Barack Obama's serious.
I want to do the same thing with manufacturing jobs, not just in the auto industry, in every industry.
Does that mean, for example, that Obama, and you watch, by the way, if anybody on television, it might have happened last night, I don't know, today, Sunday shows next week, if anybody on our side, on television, in gauges to have a serious discussion and to take Obama at his word, you watch how they'll be poo-pooed.
You watch, oh, come on, you don't really think Obama meant he wants to take over every industry?
Come on, who are you?
You're just another right-wing maniac.
You really watch what he said.
And now I want to do the same thing with manufacturing jobs, not just the auto industry, but every industry.
Auto industry came roaring back.
GM number, I want to do the same thing.
Now, he'll argue, I wasn't about taking it over.
I want to offer my unique brand of fixing it, my unique way of fixing it.
But that's not what happened, and it's not what he means.
What he really means is what he said.
He wants to take them over.
He wants to assume ownership of these things for the behalf of the federal government to quote unquote fix them and then do whatever.
And you watch anybody who endeavors to take him seriously is going to be mocked, made fun of.
Oh, don't be ridiculous.
You're another one.
You may as well be a birther.
They'll try to intimidate, make fun of these people, get them to shut up.
And as such, I predict there won't be a whole lot of people really taking this as seriously as they should be.
And I'm talking about just a campaign issue.
This is a made-the-order campaign issue for somebody who might have the chutzpah to look at this ideologically.
How long has it been that I have been advocating that the Republican Party and that everybody learn to look at people ideologically, that their ideas define them, that their ideology tells you all you need to know about them?
In other words, the more people, how long have I been saying this?
How many years have I been saying this?
The more you could look at somebody, if you know that they are a liberal, that that tells you what you need to know about them, especially if they're involved in politics.
But it doesn't matter, even if they're just the neighborhood grocery store bag filler, whatever, you know they're a liberal and you know, but you know how they're going to vote, you know what they're going to do and think on socially, you know.
And that's a supreme advantage that most people don't want to look at other people that way or don't know how or think that for some reason it's labeling somebody when it isn't.
Defining properly, understanding, analyzing, whatever, someone's ideology is all you need.
And the more people who understood liberalism ideologically, the easier and greater opportunity we'd have to beat them.
So here's Obama.
I want to repeat, that will take over every industry.
Who is he?
We know who he is.
We know what he's done in three and a half years.
We know what he doesn't like about America.
We know what he's tried to fix, ostensibly, and has broken, made worse.
We now know who Obama is.
We know he's not this Messiah, the one, the unique, never before seen in politics before figure that they gave us in 2008.
We know.
So he's giving us a present here.
This is a great gift.
I won't take over every industry.
It's like I did automobile.
So if Romney, the Romney campaign, could translate this ideologically and use this to help people understand exactly who is Obama on everything, they could really move the ball forward, looking at people's ideology, looking at their ideas, not their party ID and not their image, and not the way the press has created the PR about them.
I don't know how many years I've been talking about this, but it has been many.
And this is a great opportunity.
This comes right after you didn't build that.
You didn't make that.
You put this together with that.
It's a great opportunity for Romney and the whole Republican campaign if they know what to do with it.
On the cutting-edge Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network in January of 2011.
And by the way, I'm going to get the phone calls in this hour.
It's something we always try to do on Friday, since it ostensibly on Friday is a show about the callers.
So if you're on hold, you sit tight.
Hang in there and be tough.
Now, in January of 2011, January 2011, a year and a half ago, General Motors stock price was $38.90.
Today, it's just over $20 a share.
Today, General Motors owes American taxpayers $40 billion.
The stock market has been doing quite well.
So what happened?
Obama and his union pals are in charge of this great success story.
He wants to do this to every other American industry.
We haven't been paid back for the bailout yet.
The stock price is a little bit more than half what it was just 18 months ago.
General Motors owes $27 billion on the $50 billion that it got from the bailout.
The lending arm, the ally bank, owes $15 billion of the $17 billion that it got from the taxpayers.
And Obama's not bragging about this.
And he's threatening to do more of the same.
Not a threatening.
I don't even think it's a threat.
I think his audience loves hearing this stuff.
Because remember, his audience thinks he did save General Motors.
He goes out and tells them GM's number one, and they believe it.
Well, how about just a little stroll down memory lane?
TARP was promised to save our banking industry.
That's what we were told.
That's what we were sold.
And magically, it turned into a slush fund, a slush fund for President crony capitalism to bail out his donors and supporters.
You remember, President Bush actually proposed using some of the TARP money to save the car companies, but used in conjunction with existing bankruptcy law.
But our newly immaculated president took over and working with the tax cheat Timmy Geithner at the Treasury Department just took over General Motors and gave half the company to the UAW.
And by the way, speaking of banking, hang in there.
Hang in there, folks, because we're being told that another bank crisis is just around the corner.
Now, I'm going to put this story at the top, and it's not where I put it.
But I'm going to have to find this because the five U.S. banks have been told that we are in big trouble again.
It's a story that makes me think the whole thing is being set up to happen again.
It's just, I don't know, this perverted process of saving General Motors has cost billions of dollars.
And now Obama is out warning the country that every other industry he crushes will get the same treatment.
Go out, wreak havoc on an industry, which is what his plan is.
Wreak havoc on it.
And just like any other government program, you wreak havoc in Social Security and say, I have to fix it.
You wreak havoc on a business.
You regulate it to death.
You tax it to death.
Of course, it's never said this is what you're doing.
You're trying to help.
You're trying to make sure the rich don't get away with everything.
You're trying to save the middle class.
You're trying to protect middle-class jobs.
You're trying to create middle-class jobs.
What you really do is you go out and you regulate these businesses out of business.
You regulate them with Obamacare, new tax law.
And then as these industries and the businesses in them start getting into real trouble, then you, Obama, the destroyer, then you go in as Robin Hood or the White Knight, and you're going to save the day.
And the American people applaud.
He cares.
The architect of the problem, Barack Obama, and his Democrat Party target an industry, wreak great damage on it, and then volunteer to save it, like they did the auto industry, by taking it over.
And that perverted process has cost taxpayers billions of dollars.
The president is warning the country that every other industry he crushes will get the same treatment.
And what is one of the next industries to get this treatment?
The private health insurance industry.
That's one-sixth of the economy.
That's going to be nationalized.
That's already been done.
That's Obamacare.
Private sector health insurance within three years is gone.
Starting in 2014, private sector insurance business industry is gone.
And next, how about the coal industry?
We have coal mine companies all over this country shutting down.
They can't stay in business.
They are being targeted by Obama.
He has said that he intended to target them.
Oh, you can build a coal-fired plant if you want, but you're going to lose money because the taxes I'm going to charge you.
He said this before he was president, part of the campaign.
He announced this to some union buddies.
We've played the soundbite over and over again.
So if the government ran the coal mines, everything would work out fine, just like the auto industry, just like the private health insurance industry is going to be.
Oh, yeah, all these things are going to get fixed.
Yeah, we're all going to be driving Chevrolet Volts.
We're all going to be standing in line in third world type countries in order to get health care.
And then when it comes time to heat or cool our homes and buildings, oh, I don't even want to think it's going to be India.
It's going to be India.
650 people.
600.
We never stand for it.
We're standing for it.
Now we're sitting here saying, while it all happened, we wouldn't stand for it.
We're watching it happen.
We watch the auto industry go bye-bye.
We're watching the private health insurance industry go bye-bye.
We do nothing when he targets coal and moratorium, puts a moratorium on oil.
We don't do anything.
We don't do it daily squad.
What do you mean we wouldn't allow it to happen?
It is happening, right before our eyes, right under our noses.
The Indian population, 620 or 650 million people were without power.
And you know one of the reasons why?
It's because India is toying around with the idea that coal is bad and they're playing around with wind and solar and all this.
They are not upgrading their grid.
Asia isn't upgrading its grid.
We're not upgrading our grid.
We're not equipped.
The Indian economy, the Chikom economy, they're both growing pretty rapidly.
They're putting incredible strain on the fossil fuel power production industry.
And we've got plenty of fossil fuels.
There's no shortage.
All of this is a manufactured panic.
But everybody's following.
But I'll tell you one thing, it isn't going to happen.
The Chikoms and the Indians are not going to voluntarily slow down their economies in order to make sure that they don't have power allergies.
They'll just have the power out there.
What are the people going to do?
650 million people were out of power, and what did they do, Stern?
They accepted it.
What else could they do?
California just was told, we're going to have to put you on the grid.
It's 90 degrees.
How we're going to have to put some of you people on the grid or take you off the grid.
We're going to ask you voluntarily at first in the afternoons to watch your thermostats.
Well, we've had people lose power here.
People lost power for a week in the nation's capital.
What did they do?
But then what did they do?
You say we won't stand for it?
We're standing for the auto industry being taken over.
We're standing for the private sector health insurance and health care industry to be taken over and destroyed.
We're watching 55, 60% of the American people, poll after poll oppose Obamacare, but it's happening.
What do you mean we won't stand for it?
Who's standing up to stop it?
Let me take a brief time while you chew your cud over that.
I'm going to find this bank story.
Because I know I had it here.
Be right back.
Don't go away, folks.
Okay, here we go.
It's a Reuters story.
Welcome back, Rushland Open Line Friday.
U.S. regulators directed five of the country's biggest banks, including Bank of America Corporation and Goldman Sachs, to develop plans for staff collapse if they face serious problems, emphasizing the banks could not count on government help.
Two-year-old program, been largely secret until now, is in addition to the living wills the banks crafted to help regulators dismantle them if they actually do fail.
It shows how hard regulators are working to ensure that banks have plans for worst-case scenarios and can act rationally in times of distress.
Well, let me boil this down for you.
U.S. regulators are telling banks to make plans for preventing a collapse.
Why would they be doing that now?
That's right, Mr. Lumbaugh, because don't you see banks should be planning for this each and every day.
It's always possible, Mr. Lumbaugh, that banks could collapse.
Yeah, but they're warning them to be ready now.
Make plans now to prevent a collapse.
They told the banks to consider drastic efforts to prevent failure in times of distress, including selling off businesses, finding other funding sources if regular borrowing markets shut them out.
Got to find ways to reduce risk.
The plans must be feasible to execute within three to six months.
Banks were to, quote, make no assumption of extraordinary support from the public sector, meaning we ain't bailing you out.
Public sector is the government, and we ain't bailing you out.
You better be making plans to prevent collapse.
And if it happens, you better be able to handle it on your own, or else you're all going to end up like Lehman Brothers.
And then we're going to have a movie made about each of you.
And then the country is never ever going to elect a Republican again because every bank is going to be portrayed as having been run by a Romney-type guy.
Why would they be warning?
You better get your disaster plans in order.
And by the way, you can't count on the government.
Now, the government, what are they supposed to do?
Protect the economy.
So another collapse, these guys can't count on the government.
I know that they want us to believe, well, that's good, Rush.
The government's not going to bail out the banks.
The banks should.
I understand all that.
I agree with you.
This is another threat, though.
This is a and I think I'm just throwing this out there.
It's probably very unlikely.
But I saw a story the other day that all of these banks that donated money to Obama are not this year.
Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, all these idiots that threw in practically every dollar they donated in 08 went to Obama.
It's now not going to Obama.
Well, this is the kind of thing that might result from it.
Oh, okay.
You don't see fit to contribute to me?
Fine.
You better get ready for the next disaster.
Remember, I can cause them.
And if it happens, you're not getting bailed out.
In other words, if there's another collapse, you put it together what he just said in Pueblo, Colorado.
If there's another collapse, I'm running your bank.
I'm going to come in and I'm going to take your bank just like I took General Motors.
That's who the guy is.
It's what he's saying.
Don't doubt me.
Again, folks, none of this would be a big, big threat if people just had the ability, the wherewithal to look at Obama ideologically and understand what that means.
Of course, it's more complicated than that.
You and I understand liberalism as it's simple to us.
It's the persuading others that's, I know, it's a tough thing to do.
Let's grab the call.
I promised we'd take phones in this hour and we're going to start.
Look, we had a call from the Philippines.
Mindanao in the Philippines.
This is Jeannie.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Hello.
Hi.
Thank you for letting me talk to you.
You bet.
My question is: why do you think that the left doesn't call as much to defend Obama?
They hardly call at all.
I can't remember a call in a long time.
Well, first let me ask Snerdley a question.
Are they says they're not calling?
Because normally we put callers from the left at the front of the line.
And that stems back to the first days of this program when we were accused of never putting people on who disagree with me.
And so whenever we had a caller disagree, we always put that caller at the front of the line.
And that's a policy that is a holdover.
It still happens.
I don't, you know, until you brought it up, I hadn't even thought about it.
My guess is they probably think it's hopeless.
Right.
Well, they know they can't trick me.
Even if they trick Snerdley, they know they're not going to get by me.
And they know that they're not going to last more than 30 seconds if they start getting belligerent.
It's going to take them longer than that to make their point.
But why they don't call to either argue with me or defend Obama?
I don't know.
They probably don't think it's necessary.
That's true.
That's true.
Well, it's interesting.
You're thinking about that as you're sitting out there listening in the Philippines.
You have a theory on it.
I kind of like what you think, that there's nothing to defend.
They can't defend him.
What would they say?
All they can do, well, they never do.
Even when they were calling with greater frequency, they would never really defend Bill Clinton or John Kerry.
All they would do would rip me.
Right.
That's really all the callers to the left ever did was rip me for the way I do the program or the unfairness that I engage in or some other criticism of the way I do the program.
Never really did they defend their Democrat idols.
Right, they're indefensible.
Well, I don't, I don't, as I read leftist blogs, I don't think that I see that Obama has a lot of supporters that believe all this.
You know, without getting into their IQs and relative intelligence common sense, he's got people that believe it.
They're on television every day.
There's not a shortage of people who could call here and argue in favor of Obama's agenda.
They just don't.
I've just always chalked it up to the fact that they know they're going to lose.
So why bother?
I mean, who wants to call a radio show and end up being humiliated and made to look like an idiot?
I wouldn't want to do it.
I also think, folks, a reason why so many lives don't call here, I think they're afraid of being converted.
I think they're afraid of having their minds changed.
And that would not be cool.
For a liberal, reality must always be swept aside.
You have to live in the phony cocoon reality that you've created.
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